Re: IDE hotplug support?
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Fri, 3 May 2002 02:25:41 +0200 (CEST)
> 15 drives == 16 interfaces == 8 channels == 4 controllers
> with primary and secondary channel.
>
> He will have groups of about 4 drives on each channel wich
> serialize each other due to excessive IRQ line sharing and
> master slave issues.
>
> 8 x 130MBy/s >>>> PCI bus throughput... I would rather recommend
> a classical RAID controller card for this kind of
> setup.
>
> The request aliasing effects will be almost for sure disasterous
> to overall system performance.
hm. all I want is lots of space. I don't need speed here. What is
'disasterous' here?
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester
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They stop working when you open Windows.
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